Excellent point Donna. There are a lot of new birders on the list, and I'm sure they'd appreciate a little reiteration of these tricky ID problems.
These issues have come up before on the list, which is likely why people shy away from reposting such information. There is also a great deal of info online dealing with these challenging ID problems, many of which you can find using google (or your favorite internet search engine), on the CFO website (a great article on identifying Canada vs Cackling Goose can be found here http://cfobirds.org/cbrcfiles/sep_can_cack_co.pdf) or be searching through old posts to the list at https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!forum/cobirds. David Sibley has a nice website with information about Redpoll ID, and other challenging ID problems. Lastly, if you're on Facebook, there is a Colorado Field Ornithologists group (https://www.facebook.com/groups/129995222037/) and Birding Colorado group (https://www.facebook.com/groups/BirdingColorado/) you might be interested in joining for such discussions. Good birding, Paul Hurtado Pueblo, CO (& Columbus, OH). On Mon, Dec 31, 2012 at 4:32 PM, Donna Dannen <tundrawi...@me.com> wrote: > ....but it would be nice if several questions I've seen lately.....such as > telling a cackling goose from a Canada, or Hoary from common redpolls, etc. > answers go out to the entire list. I know so many of you are expert > birders, but to be honest, I am getting back into this after a 30 year > hiatus.....though I became quite good at the time, with a respectable life > list, names and species have changed since then, and I find myself often > very confused. I would love to see the answers to many of the posed > questions, and am sure others would as well. > > Donna Dannen > Conifer > Jefferson County > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Colorado Birds" group. > To post to this group, send email to cobirds@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > cobirds+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > -- Paul J. Hurtado Postdoctoral Fellow, The Ohio State University Mathematical Biosciences Institute, http://mbi.osu.edu/ Aquatic Ecology Laboratory, http://ael.osu.edu/ E-mail: hurtado...@mbi.osu.edu Webpage: http://people.mbi.ohio-state.edu/hurtado.10 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Colorado Birds" group. To post to this group, send email to cobirds@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to cobirds+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
